Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-7-104
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Division of property - Debts and obligations
Official statutory text
A. In case the area affected comprises an entire school
district, and all of such area is annexed to only one other
district, the district to which it is annexed shall become the owner
of all the property and other assets of the disorganized district
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 70. Schools Page 481
and shall be liable for the current debts and other obligations of
such disorganized district, and said district shall also acquire
title to and provide for permanent custody of all individual
scholastic and other permanent records relating to each pupil who
was previously enrolled in the annexed district.
B. In case the area affected comprises an entire school
district, and is annexed to two or more districts, then the current
debts or obligations and property and other assets of the
disorganized district shall be divided by agreement between the
boards of education of the annexing districts, and the board of
education of either of the annexing districts may purchase any such
property or assets to effect a just division. If the boards of
education are unable to agree, the matter shall be decided by the
State Board of Education, and its decision shall be final.
C. In case the area affected is not an entire school district,
the district to which the annexation is made shall not acquire any
of the property or assets of the district from which the area
affected is detached, except that any school building or buildings
located in the affected area shall become the property of the
district to which the affected area is annexed and all obligations
pertaining thereto shall become the responsibility of the annexing
district.
D. If any mandatory or voluntary annexation made under the
provisions of this article shall occur after the election on school
district levies for the ensuing fiscal year and before the tax
levies of the ensuing year have been made and certified, the
operating and building levies authorized for the annexing district
shall be the levies for all the said district after such annexation.
All mandatory or voluntary annexations made and ordered subsequent
to the certification of the budgets and levies to the State Auditor
and Inspector shall be forthwith effective regardless of any
variation in such levies; and the budgetary assets of the annexed
district or districts theretofore so certified as unexpended and
unencumbered shall be merged by supplementary procedure with the
budgetary assets of the annexing district.
E. In case the area affected is annexed to two or more
districts or the area affected is not an entire school district, the
individual scholastic and other permanent records relating to each
pupil enrolled at the time of annexation shall be transferred to the
respective districts where said pupils are transferred. All other
individual scholastic and other permanent records relating to pupils
in said areas or entire districts affected shall be filed with the
county clerk of the county where supervision of the annexed school
district is located.
district, and all of such area is annexed to only one other
district, the district to which it is annexed shall become the owner
of all the property and other assets of the disorganized district
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 70. Schools Page 481
and shall be liable for the current debts and other obligations of
such disorganized district, and said district shall also acquire
title to and provide for permanent custody of all individual
scholastic and other permanent records relating to each pupil who
was previously enrolled in the annexed district.
B. In case the area affected comprises an entire school
district, and is annexed to two or more districts, then the current
debts or obligations and property and other assets of the
disorganized district shall be divided by agreement between the
boards of education of the annexing districts, and the board of
education of either of the annexing districts may purchase any such
property or assets to effect a just division. If the boards of
education are unable to agree, the matter shall be decided by the
State Board of Education, and its decision shall be final.
C. In case the area affected is not an entire school district,
the district to which the annexation is made shall not acquire any
of the property or assets of the district from which the area
affected is detached, except that any school building or buildings
located in the affected area shall become the property of the
district to which the affected area is annexed and all obligations
pertaining thereto shall become the responsibility of the annexing
district.
D. If any mandatory or voluntary annexation made under the
provisions of this article shall occur after the election on school
district levies for the ensuing fiscal year and before the tax
levies of the ensuing year have been made and certified, the
operating and building levies authorized for the annexing district
shall be the levies for all the said district after such annexation.
All mandatory or voluntary annexations made and ordered subsequent
to the certification of the budgets and levies to the State Auditor
and Inspector shall be forthwith effective regardless of any
variation in such levies; and the budgetary assets of the annexed
district or districts theretofore so certified as unexpended and
unencumbered shall be merged by supplementary procedure with the
budgetary assets of the annexing district.
E. In case the area affected is annexed to two or more
districts or the area affected is not an entire school district, the
individual scholastic and other permanent records relating to each
pupil enrolled at the time of annexation shall be transferred to the
respective districts where said pupils are transferred. All other
individual scholastic and other permanent records relating to pupils
in said areas or entire districts affected shall be filed with the
county clerk of the county where supervision of the annexed school
district is located.
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